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Readwise Reader

Read-later app holding articles, PDFs, newsletters and RSS in one queue

Saved articles, email newsletters, PDFs and RSS feeds all land in one inbox. Highlights sync back to Readwise, where you can tag a passage and push it into a notes app. It will read an article aloud, and the browser extension sorts and tags what you save at the moment you save it.

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  • Apple writer · founder of MacStories

    Reads in Readwise Reader once the iPad is out of its keyboard at the end of the workday. Going back to the smaller 11-inch iPad is what made him actually pick the tablet up to read, he says, instead of reaching for his phone as he had been doing.

    Source: MacStories: iPad Pro for Everything

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